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90_SB1054

      750 ILCS 5/504            from Ch. 40, par. 504
          Amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of  Marriage
      Act  to  make  a  technical  change to a provision concerning
      maintenance.
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution  of
 2    Marriage Act by changing Section 405.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.  The  Illinois  Marriage  and  Dissolution  of
 6    Marriage Act is amended by changing Section 405 as follows:
 7        (750 ILCS 5/504) (from Ch. 40, par. 504)
 8        Sec. 504.  Maintenance.
 9        (a)  In a proceeding for dissolution of marriage or legal
10    separation  or  declaration  of  invalidity of marriage, or a
11    proceeding  for  maintenance  following  dissolution  of  the
12    marriage by a court that which lacked  personal  jurisdiction
13    over  the  absent  spouse, the court may grant a temporary or
14    permanent maintenance award for either spouse in amounts  and
15    for  periods  of time as the court deems just, without regard
16    to marital misconduct, in gross or for  fixed  or  indefinite
17    periods  of  time,  and  the maintenance may be paid from the
18    income or property of the other spouse after consideration of
19    all relevant factors, including:
20             (1)  the  income  and  property   of   each   party,
21        including  marital  property  apportioned and non-marital
22        property assigned to the party seeking maintenance;
23             (2)  the needs of each party;
24             (3)  the present and future earning capacity of each
25        party;
26             (4)  any  impairment  of  the  present  and   future
27        earning  capacity of the party seeking maintenance due to
28        that party devoting time to  domestic  duties  or  having
29        foregone  or  delayed education, training, employment, or
30        career opportunities due to the marriage;
31             (5)  the time necessary to enable the party  seeking
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 1        maintenance  to  acquire appropriate education, training,
 2        and employment, and whether that party is able to support
 3        himself or herself through appropriate employment  or  is
 4        the  custodian  of a child making it appropriate that the
 5        custodian not seek employment;
 6             (6)  the standard of living established  during  the
 7        marriage;
 8             (7)  the duration of the marriage;
 9             (8)  the   age   and   the  physical  and  emotional
10        condition of both parties;
11             (9)  the tax consequences of the  property  division
12        upon   the   respective  economic  circumstances  of  the
13        parties;
14             (10)  contributions  and  services  by   the   party
15        seeking maintenance to the education, training, career or
16        career potential, or license of the other spouse;
17             (11)  any valid agreement of the parties; and
18             (12)  any  other  factor  that  the  court expressly
19        finds to be just and equitable.
20        (c)  The court may  grant  and  enforce  the  payment  of
21    maintenance  during  the  pendency  of an appeal as the court
22    shall deem reasonable and proper.
23        (d)  No maintenance shall accrue  during  the  period  in
24    which  a  party  is imprisoned for failure to comply with the
25    court's order for the payment of such maintenance.
26        (e)  When maintenance is to be paid through the clerk  of
27    the  court  in a county of 1,000,000 inhabitants or less, the
28    order shall direct the  obligor  to  pay  to  the  clerk,  in
29    addition to the maintenance payments, all fees imposed by the
30    county board under paragraph (3) of subsection (u) of Section
31    27.1  of  the  Clerks  of Courts Act.  Unless paid in cash or
32    pursuant to an order for withholding, the payment of the  fee
33    shall  be  by  a separate instrument from the support payment
34    and shall be made to the order of the Clerk.
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 1    (Source: P.A. 86-969; 87-881.)

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